Romantic poets

was a literary and artistic movement that began at the end of the 18th century and according to René Wellek, English poets of the time were part of a coherent group, with the same view of poetry and mind. By discussing Wordsworth's poem I Wondered Lonely as a Cloud and Charlotte Smith's Written at the Close of Spring, this essays demonstrates how in fact two great poets of the Romantic period had different points of view regarding nature as a main theme, their personal mindsets and their poetic…

The Romantic Lyric is defined by many varying qualities including a focus on “nature […] wild and untamed natural settings”, “rejection of reason as the organizing principle for art and society”, and an urge to “valorize the ordinary individual” (322). Romantic poets turned “away from the manners and artifices of social life” and instead “celebrated the beauties of the vast skies and towering mountains” (322) because the were tired of the looming pressures that the Industrial Revolution had…

William Wordsworth was an English poet that was famous for his romantic poems. William was the launcher of the romantic age of English literature. He was born on April 7, 1770. He joined Hawkshead grammar school in Cambridge. Around 1790 he went through France and Switzerland, after one year, he went back to France again. William character is a bit difficult and complicated. He was self-centered and hard. He preferred solitary to social life as all writers and poets. William has a unique…

age and youth,artifice and nature. The poem starts by mentioning “that is no country for old men” the country that the poet referred to is unknown. It could be any country.However, it could be the country where the poet was living in back then. We also learn that our speaker is an old man who feels like he does not belong there anymore and feels alone. The poem draws this romantic image in the minds of the readers. “In one another's arms, birds in the trees”…

making detailed references and discussing a variety of poems from the section entitled “Tableaux Parisiens” of Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal. Charles Baudelaire is one of the most compelling poets of the nineteenth century, praised for his modernist innovative style and often shocking subject matter the poet is acclaimed for his interactions and observations with every aspect of Parisian life. In “Tableaux Parisienne”, his 1868 addition to Les Fleurs du Mal Baudelaire explores themes such as…

innocent woman as a result of war. Wordsworth wrote his best poem during the Glorious decade from 1797 to1807.The volume of Lyrical Ballads was published in the autumn of 1798. After 1807 Wordsworth’s poetic powers began to decline. As being a Romantic poet, Wordsworth’s passion for nature…

hostilities of nature, and the acceptance of sexuality. Walt Whitman was a writer who was in the transition of Romanticism and Realism as he used both Romantic and Realist qualities within his work.…

The Romantic era originated in Europe during the late 18th to the mid-19th centuries. This movement regraded the enlightenment of artistic, literary, musical, cultural and intellectual achievements. This era provoked the ideals of freedom to express imagination, emotion and rebellion which was extremely influential in shaping modern views. Literature during the Romantic era contained variety in terms of content, themes, and style. Interestingly enough, Romanticism was…

“The poems show love to be a complex and powerful emotion.” Discuss the ways in which the poets have presented the different aspects of love in the poems you have studied. The poem “La Belle Dame sans Merci” is written by John Keats in 1819, he is a romantic poet and was born in England in 1795. The poem is written in the form of a traditional ballad and is presented with eight beats per sentence for each twelve quatrains and a simple rhyme scheme of ABCB. The French title of the poem helps…

In “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” by Christopher Marlowe and “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepard,” by Sir Walter Raleigh, both poets focus on the central idea of love. These poems were written in Pastoral Tradition, which celebrates the beauty of nature, and almost has a perfect setting. The details given in the first poem describe a shepherd who thinks idealistically and romantically. Whereas in the other poem, the Nymph believes realistically and disproves the belief of the perfect world…